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Death by philosophy : the biographical tradition in the life and death of the archaic philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus
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ISBN: 9780472113880 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ann Arbor (Mich.) : University of Michigan press,

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The sceptical road : Aenesidemus' appropriation of Heraclitus
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ISSN: 00791687 ISBN: 9004137424 9047413237 9789004137424 9789047413233 Year: 2004 Volume: 96 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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The revival of Scepticism in the first century B.C. is due to Aenesidemus of Cnossus. Nonetheless, very little is known of him, and much of it seems to suggest that his thought tended more towards Dogmatism, and Heraclitean philosophy in particular. The puzzle has set the scene for a long-term debate, but, as yet, no agreed solution has been propounded. The present book provides a close examination of ancient evidence as well as of critical literature, and arrives at the conclusion that Aenesidemus merely intended to offer a Sceptical interpretation of Heraclitus, and that the ideas which are incorporated in it voice distinctive features of his Scepticism.

The Derveni papyrus : cosmology, theology and interpretation
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ISBN: 0521801087 9780521801089 9780521047395 0521047390 9780511584435 0511584431 0511207336 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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This is a comprehensive study of the Derveni Papyrus. The papyrus, found in 1962 near Thessaloniki, is not only one of the oldest surviving Greek papyri but is also considered by scholars as a document of primary importance for a better understanding of the religious and philosophical developments in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Gábor Betegh aims to reconstruct and systematically analyse the different strata of the text and their interrelation by exploring the archaeological context; the interpretation of rituals in the first columns of the text; the Orphic poem commented on by the author of the papyrus; and the cosmological and theological doctrines which emerge from the Derveni author's exegesis of the poem. Betegh discusses the place of the text in the context of late Presocratic philosophy and offers an important preliminary edition of the text of the papyrus with critical apparatus and English translation.

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